[Gambas-user] EXEC with root rights

[Jesse Long]

On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 20:20, Michael Bergmann wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> for a little app I'm writing on, it would be neccessary to EXEC[] 
> (...prefered!) or SHELL() a bunch of commands that reside in the /sbin dir 
> (...they are called trough a script, indeed). Prob is that I would need root 
> rights to execute f.e. "modprobe". Any Ideas how this could be done without 
> running the whole app suid root?

see /etc/sudoers

man sudoers

then into applicateion...

exec ( "sudo", "-u", "root", "command", "parameter") for read.....

hth,
Jesse
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